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Jan. 7, 2024
What On Earth Is Peace?
In her recent book Femicide in War and Peace, Israeli anthropologist and femicide expert Shalva Weil says that “the dividing line between femicide in wartime and peacetime is very thin.” Trigger warning: that fact is the subject of this episode.
Whi...
In her recent book Femicide in War and Peace, Israeli anthropologist and femicide expert Shalva Weil says that “the dividing line between femicide in wartime and peacetime is very thin.” Trigger warning: that fact is the subject of this episode.
While the term femicide, the murder of a woman because she is a woman, was created in 1973, it did not gain popularity til the 2000s, and Shalva was instrumental in putting the phenomena of femicide into our collective consciousness.
In this episode we discuss Shalva’s groundbreaking research and her work pioneering femicide observatories, the many obstacles to keeping track of dead women, and the question of why feminist organizations of the world, including UN Women, refused to condemn Hamas’ rape and murder of approximately 300 women in Israel on October 7, 2023 - as femicide.
Credits
Host: Elle Kamihira
Produced by Elle Kamihira
Audio Engineering by Jason Sheesley at Abridged Audio
Cover Art by Bee Johnson
Music by Beware of Darkness
Shalva Weil
Anthropologist & Author
Shalva Weil, D.Phil FRHistS is Senior Researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She has published over 150 articles in scientific journals, edited several books, including the book Femicide across Europe, (Bristol University Press, 2018) and her latest edited volume Femicide in War and Peace (Routledge, 2023).
In 2020, she established the Israel Observatory on Femicide (www.israelfemicide.org), which is active in an advocacy and academic role.
From 2013-2017, Prof. Weil served as Chair of the COST Action IS1206 on Femicide Across Europe, heading a Management Committee of 80 people representing 30 countries, which signed a Memorandum of Understanding to combat femicide in Europe.
During 2015-16, she addressed the Parliaments of Portugal, Aragon (Spain) and Rome on femicide, and was invited by ACUNS to three UN meetings on gender-related killings of women and girls in Bangkok, New York and Vienna. She has since published scientific articles on female geronticide, femicide in Israel, femicide during covid-19, and femicide observatories.